核心畫面

Careful: this holds two different words that only look alike. The common one is the pine tree — tall, needle-leaved, green all winter — and by extension the pale wood it gives. The other, the verb 'pine (for someone)', is a separate word with its own history: to waste away with longing. Do not look for a metaphor joining them; there isn't one.

這個字條其實裝了兩個只是長得一樣的字。常見的那個是松樹:高、葉子像針、冬天也不掉葉,順著就指它那種偏白的木料。另一個更多收起這個字條其實裝了兩個只是長得一樣的字。常見的那個是松樹:高、葉子像針、冬天也不掉葉,順著就指它那種偏白的木料。另一個是動詞 pine(for someone),是完全不同的一個字,意思是思念到整個人枯下來。學這個字時最省力的做法是:不要硬找一條把兩者串起來的比喻線——沒有那條線,把它們當兩個字分開記就好。可以想成頂上這個核心只是「松樹」那一支。

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Pinename

  • 1

    A surname

pinenoun詞源 1/paɪn/

  • 1

    Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

    • The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.
    • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
  • 2

    Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.

  • 3

    The wood of this tree.

    • Give disease, so the swine will marry and propagate lies / Tough luck for elected officials, the beast you see got 50 eyes / Bring it on home, spread the wealth / Play it cool, the hand's been dealt / Now all the odds are in our favor / Save the victory speeches for later / Streets on fire / The mob goes wild, wild, wild / Streets on fire / The mob goes wild / 21 guns, box made of pine / Letter from the government, sealed and signed / Delivered Federal Express / On your mother's doorsteps
  • 4

    A pineapple.

    • "[…] I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.
    • Linda carried the oysters in one hand and the pineapple in the other. […] [S]he put the bottle of oysters and the pine on a little carved chair.
  • 5

    hobbieslifestylesportsThe bench, where players sit when not playing.

    • […] rather than languish on the pine in Miami.
    • Take off your gear and hit the pine. And don't take your time. You understand me, boy?
  • 6

    A counter or bartop.

    • I'll be behind the pine slinging your favorite cold ones, so come and see me!

pinenoun詞源 2/paɪn/

  • 1

    archaicA painful longing.

pineverb詞源 3/paɪn/

  • 1

    To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

    • Why pine not I, and die in this distress?
    • [T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining Atrophie, / Maraſmus and wide-waſting Peſtilence.
  • 2

    To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.

    • Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
    • Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk." Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords." Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is that?"
  • 3

    To grieve or mourn for.

  • 4

    To inflict pain upon; to torment.

    • Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。